Typical Japan House in anime and real life
 

Hi,... here three houses I found in popular anime. which are nobita's house, shin chan house and tendo (ranma 1/2) house. I guess the nobita's and shin chan houses are typical two story compact house in japan. But the Tendo house is a big one with DOJO included.

I really want to know how exactly this houses similar to real life and if there any chance any of you can explain the house including the japanese term?

I learn architecture and i reallly like one of japanese home concept which is to have a garden right in front of living room (point E in Tendo house).

thanks.

I guess you could say the bottom two are fairly typical. The top on certainly exists, but is obviously a lot bigger, wouldn't be as commonly seen in the biggest cities.

i guess these houses only exist in more sub urban area of the big city like tokyo, is it ?

another thing is all these home are have perimeter fences and quite high, so i guess once we inside the property we will have more private area because it doesn't visible from outside.

Some have fences, but no yard/garden whatsoever is also very common.

How do they have pets then? I mean you can walk your pet but with a lack of grass in those cities, wouldn't that be an issue?

Pets learn to hold it...and yeah, you have to walk them to the park and clean up after.

and also there is no garage for car. is it japanese rarely use private car? maybe the public transport system is enough to accomodate most people there.

We can see the space for parking a car in both 2 and 3. Many houses don't have a proper garage, but simply a covered car-port.

Omiya (Saitama, where my Uncle is), do have some of those larger house with the full garden and stuff, but not common. My uncle's place is exactly as MMM described, 3 stories, with a "half" covered garage

Last night I was talking with someone you just got back from 5 yrs in several parts of Japan and he mentioned the tax for operating a personal auto is $500 a year these days, along with gas prices that make U.S. prices look like a major bargain. I would say that is a significant incentive to walk and use public transport.

The style of the house in the first picture is really an older country-style home. Not uncommon, but most of them are old and falling apart unless the family has quite a bit of money. (My husband`s family has a house vaguely similar in size to this, but without the grounds because it`s wedged between the ocean and a mountain. They run a traditional inn.)

The second is a pretty common style of, well, older city house. They`re all over the place, most built in the 60s and 70s.

The third is a "modern" style suburb type house. Shin-chan`s family is definitely 勝ち組. :D I`d say it`s 90s or later in style.

People with pet dogs walk them. Even people who do have large garden spaces almost NEVER let their dogs run about loose in them. It`s sort of an obligation to walk the dog so many times a day.
Garages are fairly rare. Most people park their car in a space in the corner of their grounds, or even out on the street in front of the house. In the big big cities, car ownership isn`t incredibly common with renters... But if you own your house, chances are you own a car too.

Alot of times when you watch movies or anime.
Inside the house for walls they have those screens.



In my own house we actually have similar ones to separate the dining room and sitting room.... aren't those a little to unprivate for someones actual bed room? o.O

Do they just deal with it or do most homes have real walls these days?

Even in older houses, you have walls. Those are usually used to partition off a larger space into rooms if the need arises.

The types that are used for walls are different than those in your picture, and are considerably heavier and thicker. But even then, unless you live in an OLD house, you have normal walls between the rooms.

As for the thickness of the walls and the privacy they provide... The newer the house, the better.

1. etique and how to move inside the house

btw, I guess sofas , chairs are not popular as interior meubels since everybody is sitting in japanese style. so, is it true that a host still sitting and give a welcome bow to guest when opening the door?


2. tatami
also I learn that japanese use "tatami" as a proportion to create a room. i mean there will be a room like 3x3 tatamis or 4x5 tatamis. this is why japanese room typical a square shape.

3. japanese term
is there any specific term for guest room, bedroom, living room in japanese?